Viewing Pavilion On Hill
VIEWING PAVILION ON HILL
ARCHITECTS
TAO - Trace Architecture Office
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
Reinforced concrete
DESIGN TEAM
HUA Li, Jiang Nan, Yu Haiwen
CONSTRUCTION
Weihai Construction Group Inc
LOCATION
Weihai, China
CATEGORY
Gallery
Text description provided by architect.
The pavilion is located in woods on the hill of TashanPark in Weihai, a coastline city in Shandong.
To protect the trees in site and offer the view to major sights of city, the building is conceived as a merged volume with three viewing tubes like tree branches orientating to different axis.
Half buried and half cantilevered, the building provides to the visitor different experience on two levels:
walking down half level, one will enter the inside of teahouse and gallery space with framed views to various scenery; walking up through the preserved trees in landscape to the roof terrace, one will enjoy a unfolded breathtaking panoramic view to the ocean on this viewing platform.
